A devastating report from UNICEF has revealed the horrific scale of sexual violence against children, including infants as ...

The war in eastern DRC is not about just one issue, it is a deadly mix of ethnic tensions, regional rivalries, resource exploitation, and global interference. Soldiers stand on guard in the Lubero ...

The civil war in Sudan has been plaguing much of the continent for almost ... Just in the past three months, nearly 800,000 people were displaced in the DRC, according to numbers from the ...

The almost eternal cycle of conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is fuelling a widespread violence, mass ...

The DRC cut ties with Rwanda after the rebel group ... and later, a spillover of the civil war and the 1994 Rwanda genocide. After the 1994 atrocities – during which Hutu extremists killed ...

With Hutus at the helm, there was systematic repression of the Tutsis. This led to the formation of the Tutsi rebel group, the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), which launched a civil war in 1990.

Reports are emerging of thousands of civilians killed. Mass rapes reported. Mass graves confirmed. Ten bloody days in which the M23 rebel group swept across the east of Democratic Republic of Congo.

Here’s everything you need to know about why war is breaking out in the DRC. On April 6, 1994, Rwandan President Juvénal Habyarimana was killed by unknown perpetrators when his plane was shot ...

Since 1996, conflict in eastern DRC has led to approximately six million deaths. The First Congo War (1996–1997) began in the wake of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide, during which ethnic Hutu ...

He is the author of “The Plot to Save South Africa: The Week Mandela Averted Civil War and ... of his army were in war-torn eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) or not.

Seventy decapitated bodies have been discovered in a church in the war ... upon civil societies, governments and international organizations to prioritize civilian protection in eastern DRC ...

The United States sanctioned a Rwandan official and a Rwandan-backed rebel leader over recent fighting in the Congo.